"How do you intend to fight him with all the powers he has?" Angela said as Laney and Rene walked in the room her and Peter had been arguing.

"Well it won't be too hard once I take them away." Peter said picking up his bag and walking over to them, "Thanks for coming, Rene."

"The least I can do." Peter and Rene shook hands letting Peter absorb Rene's power.

"Please, Peter, think about what you're doing."

"I have. I'm gonna go get Nathan back." Peter said walking away with Laney close behind and Angela on their heels.

"What happens when you find out there's not a Nathan to get back?"

"I guess I'll just settle for revenge."

Angela's footsteps behind them stopped as Laney grabbed Peter's hand.

"You won't have your powers whenever we find him, Laney." Peter said keeping up the pace and looking at her out of the corner of his eye to see her nod.

"This is gonna be me, Sylar, and Nathan. You're just there incase I need some back up."

"Alright, alright I get the message, only jump in if you are needed." Peter pushed the call button for the elevator and cradled Laney's face in his hands, "last thing I need is your blood on my hands. Sylar is very powerful and even with Nathan in there to stop him, there is only so much he can do. If something happens to me, I want you to run, got it?"

She nodded again as fear filled her eyes and then quickly disappeared as the elevator buzzer went off acknowledging that the show was about to begin as Peter and Laney walked into the elevator. Peter pressed the button as a nurse walked in to join them staring at Peter causing Laney to stare back out of the corner of her eye until the nurse grabbed Peter's neck and lifted him off the ground.
"Peter!" Laney screamed as he was thrown from the elevator by Sylar, who now had Peter's bag and Laney by the arm.

"Is this all for me?" He said as dropped several vials onto the floor, while Laney fought against his grip. "You shouldn't have." He emptied the bag on the floor, "No seriously, you really, really shouldn't have."

Peter took off running as Sylar followed after dragging Laney along.

"Let go of me." She said struggling against his grip but her words fell on deaf ears it seems as his grip only tightened.

"Listen, Peter. I'm pretty disappointed in you. Your plan was to syringe me in the neck with drugs. Wasn't that the old plan? I mean don't get me wrong, congrats for pulling it off in the first place. But fool me twice, you know?"

"Yeah, I know." The familiar voice sounded from behind them as Peter slammed a board into the back of Sylar's head freeing Laney as he helped her to her feet and returned to the battle between them. Laney stood far out of the way knowing she was of no use at this point.

"What the hell did you do?" Sylar asked as he picked himself off the ground and tried to use his powers.

"Our Haitian friend.." Peter said landing a blow against his face, "I took his ability. Mind erasing and power-blocking." Peter said continuing the onslaught as he kicked the man that now laid at Laney's feet. "Now give me my brother back!" The fight continued through the construction floor of the hospital.

"Nathan's pretty dead, Peter I should know."

"He's still in you, and I'm gonna get him back."

"What are you gonna do… beat him out of me?" The half broken man said from under Peter.

Grabbing the nail gun in front of him Peter held it up to show Sylar what he was gonna do, "something like that." Peter pressed the nail gun to Sylar's hand and then quickly moved to his other one as Sylar screamed in pain Laney did as well watching in terror and catching Peter's attention. "Laney, look away."

She turned around and shut her eyes still able to hear the voices behind her as she hugged herself.

"That hurts, doesn't it? Oh, no healing power." Peter fired the nail gun again causing Sylar to scream once more and Laney to shutter at the sound, remembering the oh too familiar sound of her father and mother's screams the night of the accident.

"What do you want?" Sylar asked in pain.

"I wanna make a deal. I'll let up, I'll let you heal, but you give me Nathan. You give him back to me body and soul."

"Sounds like a pretty one sided deal to me." Sylar said with painful laughter.

"It is. So what's it gonna be?" The nail gun went off one more time, causing Laney to scream along with Sylar once more as she sat down on the ground hugging her knees to her chest reliving that night as she tuned the two men out.

Ten year old Laney and her parents were driving home from the movies on that rainy night.

"Dad, turn this song up, please!" Laney asked shooting up from the backseat to the middle of the front.

"Alright, alright." Her dad said reaching for the radio and turning it up a bit.

"Laney, put your seatbelt on." Her mother said from the passenger seat as Laney threw herself into the back seat and angrily put her seatbelt on listening to the music and her parent's conversation.

"It's so foggy out tonight." Her mother said leaning up to try to get a better look out of the window.

"Yep, you couldn't cut it with a butcher knife if you wanted too." Her father joked with a slight laugh escaping his burly voice. "It's one of them nights like in the movies, huh, Lane? When those mass murderers come out." He chuckled to himself as he lit a cigarette and cracked the window.

"Yeah dad. Jason should pop out any minute now." Laney joked back to him.

"You two cut it out. The roads dangerous enough as it is without you two getting paranoid."

Lights flashed around the curve as they went around it.

"Jeremy, you should bright light them. They are headed straight towards us." Melanie said worried from the passenger seat as Jeremy flashed the lights at the oncoming car.

"What is wrong with these people?" Jeremy said continuing to flash his lights and beginning to honk the horn at them, knowing they were close enough to hear it. A lump of terror climbed into Laney's throat as she closed her eyes a few minutes later hearing the screams and feeling the cars colliding. She opened her eyes at the sound of the utter silence, and tears streamed down her face at the sight of her mother and father in the front seat. Their blood splattered on what was left of the windshield and the shards of glass that poked out of their lifeless skin. Her body became weak and her breaths uncontrollable as her chest took in air and released rapidly. The faint sound of the sirens rang in her ears as she sat in the back of the car still buckled in and the fire fighters and police started surrounding the two piles of rubbish that were once cars. She could here them faintly outside the car and turned her attention to the window as a cop's flashlight beamed in, "we got a survivor here!"

He said as he tugged at the door trying to open it and unbuckled the shivering with fear little girl. "It's gonna be alright, kiddo. I promise."

"Mom an… and dad." She said stunned looking over the cops shoulder.

"You're gonna be fine, kid." he said setting her inside the ambulance as the paramedics began to examine her. She didn't move only flinched at the touch of their cold instruments and rubber gloves. She just stared as if her soul was lost forever now, she remained that way even when her grandmother came to retrieve her from the hospital.

How grandma Ivy used to brag about Laney being in the newspaper headlines, 'Lone child survivor of deadly car accident.' Laney never thought it was that impressive.

"Laney, Laney." Peter said shaking her lightly until her eyes flicked open to reveal the tears her lids had held in.

"What, what happened?"

"It's alright. It's over." Peter said hugging her and helping her off the ground as they walked over to a Sylar that once again resembled Nathan.

"I'm tired, Pete." he said as they sat down beside him.

"Yeah, I know."

"No, I mean I'm tired. I've been trying to get out, fight my way, and I don't think I can do it anymore. I don't think I can hang on."

"Sure you can. You know what? Let's go get some air. I know just the place."

Peter led Nathan and Laney to the roof.

"Remember the last time we were up here?"

"Yep. Yeah I do. You were standing on that edge right there, like an idiot. Asking me about dad's depression, asking me if I could fly."

"Do you remember what you said?"

"I said we could both fly."

"No, no, no, before that. You denied it."

"It was an election year." Nathan said stepping closer to the ledge as Laney stepped up to stand beside Peter, "Denial was the go to."

Peter walked up to stand beside his brother, wrapping his arm around him and patting him on the back. " It seems like a million years ago, huh?"

"A lifetime."

"And we made it through it… together. Made it through all the craziness, you and me. We can make it through anything, Nathan."

"Even death?" Nathan asked with a sorrow in his eyes.

"Why not?"

"Because this isn't me. It's not my body because it's Sylar's."

"No, It is you. Nathan, I'm looking at you."

"You're looking at an illusion."

"No, it's you. Look, I need you to keep fighting in there, okay?"

Nathan shook his head staring Peter in the eyes, "I can't. He's killing me, and I can't hold on anymore, Pete."

"Yes, you can, Nathan. Look, that's why you found me. That's why you came and found me."

"I found you, because I wanted to crucify you in Times Square."

"Nathan, that is not you."

Nathan began to wraith with pain and bent over the side of the building as if he was going to hurl, "That's what I'm trying to tell you."

Peter grabbed him and embraced him trying to calm him down. "Whoa, Nathan stay with me." Hey. Hey! Fight it."

Nathan's moans of pain brought tears to Laney's eyes and she gasped as his sorrowful eyes met hers. "Come on, I need you to fight it. I need you to fight it, Nathan. Come on, stay with me, Bud. Please. Come on."

"I'm sorry, Pete." Nathan said as he pushed away from Peter and launched him over the side of the building with Peter reacting quickly to grab his arm and Laney close behind him.

"Pull yourself up, Nathan." Peter pleaded as he struggled to hold onto to his brother.

"Let me go, Pete."

"I can't do that."

"You need to accept that I'm gone."

"I need you to help me. Now, pull yourself up, please."

Laney's tears created streams down her face and puddled onto the ledge as she stood next to Peter trying to help him hold on to Nathan.

"You're gonna have to carry on for the both of us, Pete. Okay? Tell mom I love her. You take care of Claire, fight the good fight. You've always been everything that's good in the world, Pete."

"Nathan."

"And I got a feeling the world ain't seen nothing yet."

"I can't do this without you."

"You can do anything, Pete, anything, Remember that."

A moan escaped Laney as she tried to hold on, "Nathan."

"Laney, you take care of Peter. You promise me that."

She nodded ferociously as tears continued to stream down her face and looked at Peter then back at Nathan, "I promise."

Nathan turned his attention back to Peter as tears soaked into his words, "I love you."

"Nathan? I love you, Nathan." Peter said before Nathan released him and they watched him hurdle to the ground, Laney's hand slipping into Peter's as her other fought back the tears. Watching in agony as Sylar emerged and stood from the flattened car to walk away, waving at them before doing so.

Peter crouched down resting his elbow on the ledge and his head in his hand tears streaming down his face that matched Laney's. She wrapped her arms around him and just sat there in the silence of their sulks till Peter stood up wiping his face and watching her do the same. He looked into her eyes and saw her usual fierce green eyes dim, knowing that look all too well as he wrapped his arms around her and the flood gates opened for them both once more. They slowly returned to the apartment, Peter still broken up about Nathan. Laney knew the only comfort he would find would be with Angela.

Laney unlocked the door helping Peter in as Angela stood there waiting for him with her arms outstretched, they both embraced and shared in the same moment him and Laney had on the roof. Laney went into the bathroom to get a shower and change reveling in her own sadness as the water splashed over her. She wasn't as close to Nathan as Peter was but they shared a few fond memories, mostly Nathan taking up for when Peter wasn't around to do it in school, or helping Laney and Peter sneak around knowing Angela didn't like the two of them together. She cleared her head before stepping out into the bedroom, knowing she didn't want to take any chances of Peter breaking down again but understanding if he did anyway. She found him already in his bed still fighting back sobs. She crept in to crawl in the bed behind him and not disturb him rolling over to stare into the closet so maybe he wouldn't notice her.

"Lane?" He said rolling over and shaking her a bit, fully aware she was awake. She rolled over to face him and smiled a bit.

"What is it, Pete?"

He wrapped his arm around her and pulled her closer to him, resting his head on her chest. "Nothing, I… I just don't want to be alone."

"You're not alone, Pete. I'll never let you be alone." She said as she ran her fingers through his hair and kissing the top of his head as he normally did hers. "I'm always with you and Nathan will be too." She placed her hand over his naked chest where his heart beat was the most dominant, "he's here, and he'll never leave you as long as you remember him."

Peter nodded rubbing his head against her chest and moving closer to her. "Thank you, Laney."

"Your welcome, Peter." She replied closing her eyes and relaxing, her hands still combing through his hair in the comforting manner of how he did hers several times in the past.